On Saturday, Andy Jameson wishes to visit his grandparents' home, his best friend's home, and also make a trip to the music store. He estimates the distances among these locations as follows: Andy's home to grandparents' home is 5.5 miles; Andy's home to best friend's home is 8 miles, Andy's home to music store is 2.5 miles; Andy's grandparents' home to best friend's home is 7 miles; Andy's grandparents' home to music store is 12 miles; best friend's home to music store is 4.5 miles. What is the minimum distance Andy can travel to visit his three destinations and return home?

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anonymous · Answer

A. 29.5 mi  
 
 B. 17 mi  
 
 C. 30 mi  
 
 D. 19.5 mi

stormfire1 · Answer

Draw a picture....it should be 19.5mi if he takes the shortest route which is:

Home->Music store->best firend's house->grandmother's house->home....or the reverse of that.

anonymous · Answer

uhh idk thats just th problem no pictures lol

stormfire1 · Answer

DRAW a picture...and the answer should be clear :)

anonymous · Answer

what do i draw  A pictur off

stormfire1 · Answer

To solve this I drew a picture showing points of all the locations...then I drew lines indicating the distances to each point based on what's in the problem..  Finally, I just looked at it picked out the shortest route.  It took 30 seconds after seeing the paths drawn out.

anonymous · Answer

wheres the pic

stormfire1 · Answer

On my paper :P

stormfire1 · Answer

I can scan it but it will take a minute to redraw it more neatly

anonymous · Answer

uhh alright ? so how can i see ?

stormfire1 · Answer

Here it is

stormfire1 · Answer

It doesn't have to be drawn perfectly to scale...just something to visualize the problem.